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What about the obsession with sex, sexuality, and dating in American schools, which the adults do nothing to discourage? If I had to identify one reason why poor Asians have vastly higher income mobility than poor white people, that’d be it. We literally have twice the bandwidth to focus on studying.


School isn't just about studying?


That’s where you’re wrong. At least in a capitalistic, credentialist society like America is, school is all about studying, whether you want that to be the case or not: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/05/110505103345.h...




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